Pocket handkerchief card



May 19, 1970 J. L'. BEZANILLA POCKET HANDKERCHIEF CARD Filed Feb. 27. "196'? F/G. Z.

INVENTOR.

JOSf zH ABEZA/V/LLA ATTORNEYS United States Patent,

3,512,182 POCKET HANDKERCHIEF CARI) Joseph L. Bezanilla, 1611 Electric Ave., Lackawanna, N.Y. 14218 Filed Feb. 27, 1967, Ser. No. 618,930 Int. Cl. A41b /00 US. Cl. 2-279 4 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A handkerchief simulating article having cloth elements folded to simulate the projecting portions of a breast pocket handkerchief with double faced adhesive strips along both sides of the lower edges of the cloth elements to hold them in folded relation, and cardboard members overlying the lower edges of the cloth elements at opposite sides and held by the outer faces of the adhesive strips.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to handkerchief cards of the type wherein folded cloth is attached to the upper edge of a cardboard member whereby when the cardboard member is inserted in a breast pocket the folded cloth projects above the breast pocket to simulate a folded handkerchief.

Handkerchief cards of this general type are known and are used principally by dry cleaners as an advertising device, the card portion of the article thus containing appropriate advertising indicia.

In devices of this general type current in use the folded cloth is attached to the upper end of a rectangular cardboard member by stitching across such upper edge of the card and through the cloth. This mode of attachment is unsightly and presents manufacturing difficulties which render the assembly and securement of the cloth and cardboard members somewhat slow and cumbersome.

In the prior art, proposals have been made to employ adhesive strips for securing the cloth member to the upper edge of a supporting card by wrapping an adhesive strip externally about the assembled card and cloth components of such an article. This expedient is objectionable because the adhesive strip is exposed at 'both outer faces of the finished device and also requires a relatively wide adhesive strip to simultaneously engage against both the lower portions of the folded cloth and the face of the card against which the folded cloth is disposed.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In accordance with the present invention a handkerchief simulating article of the general type discussed above employs double faced adhesive strips which are applied against both faces of the folded cloth elements of the article along the lower portions of such cloth elements, with cardboard members arranged with their upper edges overlying the lower edges of the cloth elements and the applied adhesive strips. Thus the cardboard members are held securely against the folded cloth elements at opposite sides of the article by adhesive securement of the inner faces of the upper edges of the cardboard members to the outer faces of the double-faced adhesive strips.

The present invention is further characterized by the provison of two cardboard members which are independent excepting for their joint adhesive securement to the double-faced adhesive strips. Thus the two cardboard members depend independently from the adhesive strips.

One of the cardboard members is of such height that when the entire device is placed in a breast pocket such cardboard member will automatically dispose the folded cloth elements so that they project upwardly out of the 3,512,182 Patented May 19, 1970 breast pocket while the entire card portion of the device is concealed within the breast pocket.

The other cardboard member may be of the same height as the first-mentioned member, or of substantially less height. In some forms of the article of the present invention such other cardboard member may depend sufiiciently to be inserted in a breast pocket with the first-mentioned cardboard member exposed at the outside of the pocket to display advertising indicia. Thus, a garment may be delivered to the customer with the advertising indicia of such cardboard member conveniently displayed and the customer may merely lift the article from this position and insert the cardboard portions entirely within the breast pocket for use in simulating a folded breast pocket handkerchief.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING FIG. 1 is a general view showing a garment having a breat pocket and one form of the article of the present invention applied thereto in a preliminary manner;

FIG. 2 is an enlarged elevational view of the handkerchief simulating device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a vertical crosssectional view taken generally on the line III-III of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a somewhat schematic cross-sectional view on the line IV-IV of FIG. 2; and

FIG. 5 is a fragmentary elevational view similar to FIG. 2 but showing a different form of folded cloth.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In the embodiment illustrated in detail in FIGS. 2, 3 and 4, three folded cloth members designated 10 are arranged and interlocked in a conventional manner with the raw edges of the three cloth members lowermost as indicated at 11 in FIG. 2. There will be varying numbers of layers of cloth at different points along the width of the assembled cloth members but such layers are indicated merely schematically in FIGS. 3 and 4. Two strips of adhesive material which are characterized by the fact that they have adhesive surfaces at opposite faces thereof are indicated at 12 in FIGS. 3 and 4, the lower edges of such strips being indicated in FIG. 2. The adhesive strips 12 may be of the pressure-sensitive type and may comprise a thin plastic strip having pressure-sensitive adhesive at its opposite'faces or may comprise a single strip of pressure-sensitive adhesive material which requires no separate carrier strip. Double-faced adhesive strips of both types are known in the adhesive arts.

It will be noted that approximately the upper halves of the strips 12 engage directly against the opposite lower portions of the folded cloth elements 10 to securely hold the latter in folded and properly assembled relation. In the present instance, the lower halves of the strips 12 are adhered to each other whereby the opposite lower faces of the cloth elements are restrained against any lateral shifting.

In the embodiment illustrated in FIGS. 2, 3 and 4, the handkerchief simulating device is provided with opposed card members 14 and 15 which have their upper edges adhesively secured against the outer faces of the doublefaced adhesive strips 12.

The cardboard member 14 is of slightly less height than the depth of a breast pocket so that when the entire device is placed in the breast pocket of a mans jacket, for instance, the top edges of the card members 14 and 15 will be slightly below the top edge of the pocket and only the folded handkerchief-simulating cloth members 10 will project above the top edge of the pocket, thereby simulating a folded pocket handkerchief.

The present arrangement is such that the device may occupy a different position when a garment is delivered from the dry cleaner than the final position of use of the device. To this end, the cardboard member 15, which in the present instance is shorter than cardboard member 14, may be inserted in the breast pocket so that the main cardboard member 14 extends down across the outer face of the pocket in a display position. This preliminary position of use is shown in FIG. 1 wherein a mans jacket 20 has a concealed breast pocket 21, as distinguished from a patch pocket. The upper edge of the pocket is shown at 22 and in FIG. 1 the rear cardboard member 15 is inserted in the pocket so that the device is in effect hooked on to the pocket with the main card member 14 in a display position.

While various indicia may be alranged on the members 14 and 15, in the illustrated embodiment the outer face of card member 14 may bear the name of the dry cleaner and other advertising matter and the outer face of the card member 15 may bear information useful to a customer, such as a chart showing a range of matching colors of accessories for use with clothing of various colors.

As indicated previously herein the user of the: jacket 20 will remove the handkerchief card article from the position shown in FIG. 1 and insert the same completely in pocket 21 whereby only the folded cloth points will project upwardly beyond the pocket.

FIG. shows fragmentarily an arrangement which is identical with FIG. 2 excepting that a single cloth element 25 in the form of a puff is employed, its raw lower edge being indicated at 11 as in FIG. 2. Other fold arrangements, such as the usual square fold, may be employed as desired.

It will be noted particularly that the exposed faces of the cards at opposite sides of the article of the present invention are entirely clear and unobstructed and are unmarred by stitching, stapling or other securing means such as exposed adhesive strips or the like. Accordingly, in addition to the manufacturing advantages afforded by the method and article of the present invention, a superior article from the standpoint of appearance is provided.

While specific embodiments of the principles of the present invention are illustrated in the accompanying drawing and described in detail in the foregoing specification, it is to be understood that such embodiments are by way of example only and that various mechanical modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention the scope of which is limited only as defined in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A pocket handkerchief simulating article comprising cloth folded to simulate the portions of a pocket handkerchief which conventionally project upwardly from a breast pocket, double-faced adhesive strips along the lower portions of said cloth at opposite sides thereof to retain the cloth in folded condition, said double-faced adhesive strips extending below the lower edges of said cloth and adhered to each other along said lower extending portion, and' card members at opposite faces of said article with their inner face portions attached to said cloth by adherence to the outer faces of said adhesive strips and at least one of said card members depending therefrom.

2. An article according to claim 1 wherein said depending card member is of such height that when placed in a breast pocket only the folded cloth portion projects beyond the upper edge of the breast pocket.

3. An article according to claim 2 wherein the card member at the opposite face of said article depends from said adhesive strips suificiently to be inserted in a pocket and support the article with the card member at said one face displayed exteriorly of the pocket.

4. An article according to claim 1 wherein both said card members extend downwardly from said adhesive strips in unattached relation whereby either of said card members may be inserted in a pocket with the other card member outside of said pocket or both of said card members may be inserted in a pocket to display only the folded cloth portion above said pocket.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,742,606 1/1930 Lichter 2-279 X 2,513,154 6/1950 Dundon 2-279 2,746,058 5/1956 Greer "a 2-249 2,881,492 4/1959 Aspes 24-3 3,280,488 10/1966 Rubin 2-279 X HERBERT F. ROSS, Primary Examiner US. Cl. X.R. 2-249; 243 

